[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

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Who: Participating coven members
Where: The Palai marketplace
When: Day 49
Open/Closed: OTA

[ Any and all who are in the marketplace will find that there is suddenly a mysterious barrier around the marketplace (that may be eerily familiar to some) -- specifically one large portion of the marketplace with a large number of tables and chairs, perhaps purposefully set out for nefarious reasons.

A few Palai are ushering coven members to chairs, and everything seems about normal. As normal as the Palai can be when they're putting on a show anyway. It's not until a sizable portion of the coven members are seated (and also supplied with breadsticks and small shrimp), that things get a bit more bizarre.

Thanks to the power of the Eltos, a small band of energy keeps coven members stuck to the chair (magic can interfere, of course), but that's not the end of it. On each table, next to those delicious smelling breadsticks and shrimp, is a bowl of scraps of papers. Every five minutes, a strip of paper will pop out from the bowl.

If you ask the Palai, they'll be inclined to explain speed dating to you. Asking questions, getting to know a person, then being shimmied off to the next potential mate -- this is made possible by Elto magic yet again, through flying chairs that transport their holder to a new table at standard intervals.

The Palai are extremely invested in this exercise? Will you let them down? ]

[ OOC: In the spirit of speed dating, each character will have a top level. All who want to respond to this top level can with questions from this post, but the threads have to end at 10 comments from each character. After this last tag, the characters can be assumed to have been whisked to a different potential match. You're free to have characters make up their own questions, interact with Palai serving food, etc. ]

Comments

[mech_and_mutt]

Probably not. I can't imagine somethin' that's built to go through air would hold up well in water. I couldn't even pilot my mecha through water when I still had it. Besides, the ocean... uh. Hang on.

[The emptied glass was set back between them once more, but this time a couple of the breadsticks were placed across the top of it.]

Okay, so we all live above a sea of clouds, right? The thing is, that sea of clouds is one big, deadly storm layer, and it makes it so we can't just fly down below it in an airship. [One of the small cocktail shrimp was delicately pressed down atop the breadsticks for emphasis.]

So all that old land and ocean is down there, we just can't really... get down there to it, or even look past the clouds to see it. Just like the water in the glass.

[...well, like it would be if he didn't drink it all, anyway. After letting it sink in for a beat he quickly disassembled his bizarre diorama.]

Guess you're right about the cannons, though. We'd be flying into their backyard with it, and that's a bit different.

Y'almost sound like you've seen your share of that kinda thing, too.

[drizzle]

[The presentation using bread-sticks, shrimp, and glass was very helpful in explaining his situation back home. She couldn't help watch with interest about it. A world separated by a dangerous storm that is forcing those living within it to take refuge in the sky above it. She can imagine there was an interesting story behind it. Depending if he was already born in a system like it, living in the sky rather than having once lived on the "old" ground.]

A deadly storm layer, huh? That's interesting. So you're saying your entire world is surrounded by it?

[Her tone of voice will be more matter-of-fact as she can't help feel a sense of responsibility over it. Not that she is response for his world to have become this way, but his description of it -- a dead and active storm layer -- will remind her of her responsibility as a Rain Summoner. Learning to control the weather was her responsibility as the direct descendant of her family.

With a nod of her head, all she can admit was.]

None of us know what they have in their territory too. Who knows what we may find up there. Just having us there, checking them out, would be intimidating enough, I think.

[As for his next question, she'll look down, some silence before admitting.]

...you can say that. I come from an island nation back home. Our borders are closed off to everyone that isn't a natural born citizen. There has been a good portion of people who've tried to find our location. We're kinda a legend back home, you see. [Almost everyone knew their country's name, and yet do not believe of their existence due to extraordinary story tied to it.]